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Efforts to stem the decline of monarch butterflies took a giant leap forward today with the completion of a historic agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Illinois-Chicago. The agreement encourages transportation and energy partners to participate in monarch conservation by providing and maintaining habitat on potentially millions of acres of rights-of-way ...
The monarch butterfly is not currently listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora or protected specifically under U.S. domestic laws.
- Mariposa Monarca Biosphere Reserve
- Working with Local Communities
- U.S. Forest Service International Programs
The high altitude forests that provide winter habitat for hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies are on the borders of the states of Mexico and Michoacan. In 1986, the Mexican government created the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (Mariposa Monarca Biosphere Reserve) to protect 62-square miles of forests within four separate monarch sanctu...
Much of the land within the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is communally owned “ejido” land. The residents of the ejidos are poor farmers who have relied on these forests for lumbering, firewood, and construction material for generations. Although logging was outlawed in the core zone when the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve was created in...
Since 1993, the U.S. Forest Service International Programshas been working with Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve managers and partners in the region to build management capacity, to provide guidance to communities for resource management, and to conserve natural resources in the core zone of the Reserve. Staff from the Willamette National Forest...
Mayors and other local and tribal government chief executives are taking action to help save the monarch butterfly through the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors' Monarch Pledge, a tri-national initiative with the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
The monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus) is among the most recognized, studied, and loved of all of North America’s insects. Children study monarchs in school. Researchers and citizen scientists track their migration and breeding. Conservationists and government agencies are concerned about threats to breeding, migration, and wintering habitats.
The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown.
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6 days ago · Monarch butterfly, member of the milkweed butterfly group known for its large size, its orange and black wings, and its long annual migrations. Monarchs are found primarily in North, Central, and South America but also occur intermittently in other parts of the world.
